Late fall in Chicago

You can tell from the colours going, and more bare trees around (and all those long, straggly branches!), that while fall hasn't quite ended, winter is near.



In fact, temperatures were already below freezing in Chicago last week, where I'd taken these shots while "on the go", as we were moving from point to point (mostly between carpark and museum). Literally, point and shoot, before I or Ben would be straggling behind, and Vern and Jon would have to call out to me to hurry along because it was so cold!

On Thanksgiving Day itself, there were flurries (light snow!) in the morning, while the MacDonald's Thanksgiving Day parade was going on. Which, for what a bigtime event that was, how could we possibly give it a miss? And so, we caught a bit of the floats and fun... on TV! Hehe! Think warmth and comfort of indoors, although more, more of the great outdoors had it not been so windy, would have been the way to go!



With the chilly weather, and us fighting the flu, we didn't try and pack too much into each day that we were there. Except for one evening when we walked around for a little while, until it got way too cold, we would just call it a day after dinner.



And with kids in tow, you might too, because the sun now sets at 4.30pm!



Watch this space for what we did do in the Windy City!